A woman claims she saw a big cat "bigger than a Labrador" roaming on old tennis courts outside her home.

Annie Mitchell, 71, was looking out her window at her bird box while having lunch when she saw the "large black cat".

She went out for a closer look and watched as it prowled around the now-closed tennis courts near her home in Kirriemuir in Angus, Scotland yesterday (19).

Shocked Annie said: "My first thought was 'look at the size of that cat - what a long tail' and how big it was.

"I felt it was bigger than any cat I have seen.

"I was about one and a half bus lengths away from it.

"I went outside to get closer look and was only a car length away.

"It looked big.

"It looked bigger than my Jack Russell dog.

"I thought it was longer then a Labrador dog but not as high.

"I have not seen a cat that big before.

"It certainly was not a dog.

"It's movement was low and prowling. It was looking for mice maybe in the field."